The effect of hand motion and object orientation on the automatic detection of orientation: A visual mismatch negativity study

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 2; p. e0229223
• Main Authors: Petro, Bela, Kojouharova, Petia, Gaál, Zsófia Anna, Nagy, Boglárka, Csizmadia, Petra, Czigler, István
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 26-02-2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adaptation; Adaptation, Physiological; Adult; Analysis; Biology and Life Sciences; Brain - physiology; Color Perception - physiology; Engineering and Technology; Event-related potentials; Evoked Potentials, Visual - physiology; Experiments; Eye-hand coordination; Female; Hand - physiology; Humans; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mismatch negativity; Movement; Neurosciences; Object recognition; Orientation; Orientation - physiology; Orientation behavior; Perceptual orientation; Photic Stimulation; Psychomotor Performance; Reaction Time; Research and Analysis Methods; Social Sciences; Studies; Texture; Visual perception; Visual Perception - physiology; Visual stimuli; Visual tasks; Young Adult; Spain; Hungary
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229223

We investigated the effects of voluntary hand movements and continuously present objects on the automatic detection of deviant stimuli in a passive oddball paradigm. The visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) component of event-related potentials (ERPs) was measured as the index of automatic deviant detection. The stimuli were textures consisting of parallel, oblique bars with frequent (standard) and infrequent (deviant) orientation. Traditional vMMN was measured by the difference between ERPs to frequent (standard) and infrequent (deviant) textures. Additionally, we measured 'genuine' vMMN by comparing the ERPs to deviant and control textures in the equal probability procedure. Compatible and incompatible hand movement directions to the standard texture had no influence on 'traditional' vMMN and elicited no 'genuine' vMMN. However, the deviant texture elicited 'genuine' vMMN if the orientation of a continuously present rectangle was different from the standard (and identical to the deviant) texture orientation. Our results suggest that the direction of voluntary hand movement and the orientation of task-irrelevant visual patterns do not acquire common memory representation, but a continuously present object contributes to the detection of sequential regularity violation.